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[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Cry harder, the Falklands are ours.

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@elchampionman @GHFalklands @Colin_M_R La población, la ley, y los muertos gloriosos gritan que son y restarán británicas

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@elchampionman @GHFalklands @Colin_M_R Eran, son, y restarán británicas

[Government House🇬🇧🇫🇰 @GHFalklands]

IYKYK ⚽️

[Tom @thewheythetruth]

Help! My kids accidentally love their country and it has the potential to lower my status!

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@HuddsPrsrvtnSoc Incredible https://t.co/mIuw4aX3qW

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

The post was made on May 8 but the British Asian man was only arrested yesterday, six days after Ann Widdecombe was murdered at her home

He was interviewed before being released on bail pending further inquiries. He describes himself as a Lib Dem

Story: https://t.co/KgYhAwMKSO

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@Liberty_Vegan @PathToManliness Literally https://t.co/1JVBekMKy6

[Skylar Romines @skylarromines]

One of the roles a man is responsible for is guiding the pace & trajectory of a relationship.

Being invited to meet her family on the second date, and the day after you met is 9/10 times a red flag. I love a fast moving love story that lasts forever, but reality is most do not unfold that way.

He may have scared her away by being too available with his time & lacking boundaries. Unless he was confident she was the one and ready to commit to a future, why is he meeting her family so fast? It’s a bit weird.

Having a flip phone to avoid p*rn is also a potential red flag. Is he an ex ‘addict’? Normal people can have smart phones & not watch inappropriate content.

She also just may not have been into him or ready for anything serious.

Doesn’t really matter either way - she’s made it clear she doesn’t want to proceed with dating him.

[Dominic Seaward @DomSeaward]

Doesn't feel very fair that we are paying towards the state pensions of 67-70 year olds that we will never receive whilst also paying student loans that generation never had to pay.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The World Bank ranked every country on earth for practical solar potential.

Britain came second from bottom. Not second from bottom in Europe. On the planet. Out of everywhere they measured, the only place with worse conditions for a solar panel is Ireland. Norway is above us. Norway, where the sun clocks off entirely for part of the year, is a better bet than Lincolnshire.

The reasons are not a mystery. We sit at 53 degrees north, the same line as Edmonton, Alberta. The sun in December gets about as high as a first-floor window and then thinks better of it. And there's the cloud, which is not a detail, it is the national personality. A square metre of London gets 0.52 kilowatt hours of sunlight a day in December and 4.74 in July, so the panel does nine times less work in the month your heating is on than in the month it isn't. Across the whole of 2024, British solar ran at 9.5% of what it's rated at. The other 90.5% is a photograph of a power station.

Now the other column.

The ground we're bolting it to is Trent valley silt and Lincolnshire fen. Some of it took three hundred years to drain. It grows wheat at yields that most of the planet cannot get near, in a climate so reliably damp that grass grows here without anyone asking it to, which is the entire reason this island has cattle and cheese and a butcher.

So we are, measurably, one of the worst places on earth for sunlight and one of the best on earth for food.

And we've had a good long look at both of those numbers and gone with sunlight.

Somewhere in Namibia, which the same report ranked first, there is a patch of absolutely nothing, in full sun, wondering what it did wrong.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This is outrageous and completely unacceptable

They know they have whistleblowers and they say things like this in all staff meetings. What do they think is going to happen?

MULTIPLE whistleblowers came forward with similar allegations. Instead of saying they aren't true and these people are letting the organisation down they should say they are disappointed that some people appear to believe these claims and are going to ensure there is a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of it

AND they should be reassuring staff there's no need to even think about FOI as they go about their daily jobs

Complaining about people "letting the company down" is going to make staff worry about retaliation although it also hands them material that can be used against NESO if any of them are fired and take this to an Employment Tribunal

The @neso_energy management needs to take a breath because they're giving the impression of digging a deeper hole for themselves

@Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @griffitha @NJ_Timothy @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @cmackinlay @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @ofgem @energygovuk

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

Extraordinary response from Michael Shanks, the Energy Minister, and Labour MPs in the House just now in response to @ClaireCoutinho's Urgent Question. He keeps answering a much weaker essay question by arguing that the lights stayed on.

But that is not the allegation.

Whistleblowers are asking whether NESO operated the grid with adequate security margins, whether it concealed exceptional risks and whether it properly recorded the decisions it took.

"Demand was met" does not answer any of those questions.

Ministers and blob-adjacent MPs can redefine success as "no one lost power" as often as they like. The fact remains that a system can avoid a blackout while operating under abnormal, poorly managed or inadequately documented conditions.

To be clear, pointing that out, as Coutinho’s whistleblowers have done, is not "scaremongering".

More concerningly, despite claiming to take these allegations seriously, Shanks will not confirm whether the inquiry will be genuinely independent. We need to know whether it is designed to establish the truth or merely to produce a whitewash that reinforces the official narrative.

None of this inspires confidence.

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

What is going on?

This is a national scandal

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@Lorraine4Indy @dougie_hh This may be news to you, but there was a referendum on the issue in 2014, and a clear majority voted to remain

[Miles @pe_nng]

As President of France I too would give whatever PM killed off the Royal Navy the Légion d’Honneur

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

Extraordinary fact: £1 in every £2 paid in income tax in Britain goes directly to the retired.

Our current pensions set-up and Triple Lock is not only unsustainable, but crippling the economy for those building it.

[Laurie Wastell @L_Wastell]

As Argentina was throwing in the towel at the end of the Falklands War, journalist Max Hastings, incredibly, walked into occupied Stanley ahead of the British forces. He speaks to the dejected Argentine soldiers and asks if they’re surrendering. Some of them glare at him but he meets no resistance. He then continues to the town pub, the Upland Goose, where he's met with cheers. The landlord says: “We never doubted for a moment that the British would come… Would you like a drink?”

Via @dcsandbrook

[Roy @usr_bin_roygbiv]

Every once in a while you work at a company that only hires people who know what they're doing, and suddenly its 20 people doing the same work as 400 somewhere else. There's zero meetings, everyone talks once a week on slack, and you go huh, how much garbage is there actually.

[Liam Holman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Liam_Holman99]

Can I pretend I didn't see this and then act shocked when it happens and then lobby for billions in compensation?

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Tuchel’s plan for tonight’s match against Argentina has leaked. It’s complicated but might work:

[Guy Dampier @dampierguy]

Framemogged by free marketeers.